HUGON, ÉDOUARD. - Dominican philosopher and theologian, b. at Lafarre (Haute Loire) on 25 Aug. 1867, d. in Rome on 7 Feb. 1929. In 1885 he was at Rijckholt (Holland), where he took his solemn vows on 13 Jan. 1890; he taught philosophy and theology at Rosary Hill (New York), Poitiers, Angers and at Rijckholt. In 1909 he was called to Rome to found, together with Frs. Szabó, Pègues and Garrigou-Lagrange, the Pontifical Athenaeum Angelicum, and for 20 years he remained there as professor and consultor for the Eastern Church, examiner of the clergy and member of the Roman Academy of St. Thomas.

H. was a complete theologian, both for his command of the various sacred sciences and for his balance between mind and heart: alongside the scholastic exposition of the theses stood the corollarium pietatis. His philosophical-theological teaching shines for ease, clarity and sureness of doctrine, strictly Thomistic.

Among his numerous publications, mention should be made of the two texts for philosophy and theology that have been the guide of so many young ecclesiastics: Cursus philosophiae thomisticae ad theologiam doctoris Ang. propaedeuticus (3rd ed., 6 vols., Paris 1946) and Tractatus dogmatici (revised ed., 3 vols., ibid. 1931-35). Among the works of popularization: Le Mystère de la Rédemption (9th ed., ibid. 1946); La Sainte Eucharistie (7th ed., ibid. 1935); Les vingt-quatre thèses thomistes (8th ed., ibid. 1938). In addition, a series of articles in the journals Angelicum, Vie spirituelle, Revue thomiste.

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BIBL.: Analecta S. Ord. FF. Praed., 19 (1929-30), pp. 126-27; anon., E. H., in Bulletin Thomiste, 6 (1929), pp. 529-30; M. F. Cazes, E. H., in Revue Thomiste, 34 (1929), pp. 97-99; D. Donovan, E. H., in Dominicana, 14 (1929), pp. 116-19; R. Garrigou-Lagrange, Un théologien apôtre: E. H., Paris 1929; H. Hugon, Le père H., Paris 1930; Acta Capituli provincialis provinciae Lugdunensis, Lyon 1931, pp. 21-22.

Abele Redigonda

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